China Menaced by Exploding Monitor
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Aug 30, 2011 04:21 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, China, Made in China, PC Hardware, Technology, Zhejiang
China’s world-beating manufacturing standards are once again under scrutiny after an exploding monitor incident, with the maker claiming that this is the first exploding monitor it has encountered “but there have been cases of the PCs themselves exploding.”
The PC, made in China, was owned by a 22-year-old woman, a resident of China’s Zhejiang province.
According to her report, she had just started up the PC and left her seat when she heard a loud bang, turned around and discovered the PC’s monitor to be crackling and spewing flaming fragments and smoke “like a volcano.”
She was unharmed by the explosion, but flames soon began to spread to her desk, curtains and wallpaper. Fortunately, her screams summoned a neighbour, who assisted her in extinguishing the flames.
Both computer and monitor are said to have been the products of the same manufacturer, bought in 2008. The monitor had apparently been defective from the start, but she used anyway, until May of 2011 when it became unusable and she had the maker replace it. The monitor was serviced with “official” parts and returned.
The manufacturer’s response is less than reassuring:
“This is the first time one of our monitors has exploded, although there have been cases of the PC itself exploding.”
Using a PC in China appears to be a rather fraught experience indeed.
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Isn't there anything made in China that doesn't explode? It's like their products are made of explosive material!
The only things made in China that don't explode are their bombs.
Chinese soldiers: Fire in the hole!!
Enemy soldiers: Incoming watermelons!!!
It was horrible. People screamin'... Rinds everywhere...
How do you like them watermelons?
anon@7:44
i don't get...
Because black personnel would jump at the sight of watermelons, killing themselves and the US army losing personnel, amirite?
This is why the US is biased towards employing black personnel...
Why do china need to build bombs when everything else can do the same thing
the mythbusters are moving to china!
Along with Micheal Bay.
lmao, good one
Maybe those implode?
You know, I'm just going ahead and make a sexost joke.
"Woman trying to turn on a PC or China's manufaction geniuses?"
*Runs away*
in russia u don't own p, pc owns u;but in china pc tries to kill u
In China EVERYTHING ends with a bang! Oh wait!
give thanks they don't make underwear! of fire extinguishers, although i might be wrong, maybe there were no survivors to tell...
Well, I used to laugh at this sign, but now I'm not sure if I should keep that attitude...or not.
http://www.engrish.com/2008/08/if-the-flames-dont-get-ya-the-explosions-will/
dont be surprised if one day they came to nuke a country with a toilet...
Those chinese people are a bit too proud of their gunpowder.
Probably their bombs.
They can't stop now. This is Bomb Country.
which is why the americans had to get a missile defense network, because you never know where those chinese nukes would end up
... just recycled atomicwaste. *yawn*
Living in China is like living on the edge, everything explodes.
China: The game.
Michael Bay will be so proud. Who needs The Cube when you have China.
Chinese Firewalls really are the best!
lmao
CRT or LCD ?
i don't think the screen itself exploded, a CRT imploses, and the LCD panel doesn't explode or anything,
but the loud BANG could very possibly be a power supply capacitor, breaking stuff around and creating shortcuts, therefore setting the screen on fire
so that could very possibly be a LCD to me ;)
Does it matter? It's China! :P
Probably is a CRTLCDLED technology, just like the UMDBDDVD9
Cathode RAY TUBE buddy! Must of replaced the caps with disassembled claymores!!!!
+
Living in chinoc is akin to spinning a semi loaded revolver to see if ya live to the next day~
was wondering the same :X
CRT is far more likely.
China, the Acme of the real world.
You all have Chinese parts in your tech stuff of every kind. And many brands are made in China today, despite what you think their origin may be.
China is exporting stuff for billions to USA for an example. How can that huge 1200 billion debt to China have otherwise been created?
There is almost no escape from Chinese products today, no matter what you think of them.
Not really. Acme products in cartoons ACTUALLY WORK.
CHINA JUST NEEDS SOME MORE IQ TO MAKE SHIT BETTER.
AND MOAR CAPS
I got a fever, and the only cure is more Caps Lock!
Woman to tech support: "My monitor is on fire!"
tech support: (with sound of shuffling papers and in broken english) "thank you for your problem. Have you tried to rebooting yet?"
To be honest, I'd try rebooting if my wallpaper was on fire.
lol, them openly admitting their computers blow up.
I witnessed two computers 'blow up.'
For one it was a capacitor that blew up rather violently, propulsing bits of itself everywhere. I didn't even know they could do that if you wanted them to.
For the other it was an optical disk which I assume had a bad balance. It was put in the disk drive, started to be read and suddenly it made a strident sound, and bam the drive exploded, cracked in half and smaller pieces.
Admittedly, the cases would have contained everything if they had been left put. Admittedly too, I cannot swear that wasn't chinese hardware.
She failed to run Crysis 2 in DX11 :)
“This is the first time one of our monitors has exploded, although there have been cases of the PC itself exploding.”
hahahahahahahaha that in itself is priceless china quality
surprisingly honest, that's a good sign actually, not China quality
So China is full of creepers?
Aren't those little toys in Happy Meals made in China? Scary, huh?
I'm waiting to hear the first damage reports from their new aircraft carrier.
Exploding Watermelons - Check
Exploding Chairs - Check
Exploding Toilets - Check
Exploding PC´s - Check
Exploding Monitors - Check
Plans for the Future:
Exploding Airplanes
Exploding Fridges
Exploding TVs
the list could go on FOREVER.
QUALITY PRODUCED STUFF MADE IN CHINA
(including a Random Selfdestruct option)
Man i would even be scared to shake Hands with a Chinese, cause i dont know if he would explode if i did it.
Man, my wife is Chinese and explodes at the slightest provocation. Now if she would only do that in bed...
You missed a few.
Exploding rockets.
Exploding cars.
Exploding spacecraft.
Exploding space station.
Exploding dams.
Exploding power plants.
Exploding toys.
now now, exploding breasts has been seen worldwide
also exploding aircraft are quite usual
not sure if fridges explode, they're cold but they have a lot of energy running through them
TVs exploding is quite normal too, especially because it came as an invention way before computers and thus was far more dangerous.
I think I want to see their rice, bottles and pillows explode first!
Aircraft don't explode Anon. Sometimes, they fall on the ground, which may or may not cause the fuel to ignite, but they don't explode by themselves.
Think how much technology (or other items for that matter) is actually produced in china and shipped out...
just checked the base of my 'lap'top. Wish i hadn't
Does Lemons Also Explodes On China? O.o
You forgot their women's breast:
http://alfalfalfa.com/archives/3622867.html